Veterans' Employment Service plans racial integration in hiring
Perry Faulkner reveals at a Washington conference with the National Urban League that the Veterans' Employment Service will expand Negro personnel to state staffs. A Negro Assistant Veterans' Employment Representative already serves in D C with field staff in Ohio Michigan and New York. The policy defines veterans by law and requires integration with existing offices. Civil Service handles job placements.
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Veterans’ Employment Service
VSES
Perry Faulkner
VES
Washington
National Urban League
Faulkner
Leroy W. Jeffries
Urban League
Veterans
District of Columbia
Ohio
Michigan
New York
NUL Report Cites Bias in Veterans Employment Service
The National Urban League’s March report to USES officials notes little use of Negro personnel in counseling and job finding. Negro veterans seeking help through the service express lack of confidence in the agency’s efforts to secure employment, especially outside traditional Negro jobs.
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National Urban League
Veterans’ Employment Service
U.S. swaps cotton for coconut oil in wartime barters
E. D. White explains the plan sends low grade cotton to Japan for textiles, traded to the Netherlands East Indies for coconut oil. The fats shortage spurs soap production growth, while officials urge continued wartime fat salvaging by women.
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E. D. White
Department of Agriculture
Japan
Netherlands East Indies
American
Exhibit Honors Negro Artists at Phillips Gallery
A new exhibit featuring Richmond Barthe Horace Pippin and Jacob Lawrence opened at Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington. Catholic Inter-racial Council president G Howland Shaw presided while James Herring of Howard University spoke on Negro Sculpture and Rev John LaFarge discussed The Negro in Art. The show runs through January 3.
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Washington, D. C
Richmond Barthe
Horace Pippin
Jacob Lawrence
Phillips Memorial Gallery
G. Howland Shaw
Catholic Inter-racial Council
James Herring
Howard University
John LaFarge S. J
America
Catholics distribute 10000 copies of seminar report
Washington D C Special More than 10000 copies of the Seminar on Negro Problems report issued by the Social Action Department National Catholic Welfare Conference have been distributed. The pamphlet records recommendations from forty nationally known Roman Catholic leaders in interracial work at a five day seminar held here last July.
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Washington, D. C
Social Action Department
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Jeffries Praises VES Program Efforts for Negro Veterans
Jeffries notes numerous conferences by Urban League officials with VA USES and Labor Department personnel to place Negro veterans and curb discrimination across states He hopes southern states with large Negro veteran populations will be covered amid dissatisfaction with counseling and services.
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Jeffries
Urban League
USES
Department of Labor
Archbishop Hosts Inter racial Mass at Apostolic Delegation
The Catholic Inter-racial Council members were invited by Most Rev. Amleto Ciocconi, Archbishop of Laodicea and Apostolic Delegate to the United States, to celebrate their monthly Inter racial Mass in his private chapel at the apostolic delegation. He has served as Pope Pius XII’s representative in the United States since 1933.
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Washington, D. C
Catholic Inter-racial Council
Amleto Giovanni Cicognani
Laodicea
United States
Pope Pius
Paul D. Williams Reelected President of Southern Regional Council
Paul D. Williams of Richmond Virginia was reelected president of the Southern Regional Council. He is the first Catholic to hold the post and co founder of the Catholic Committee of the South. He has served on the National Council of Catholic Men and received the 1945 James J. Hoey medal for contributions in interracial relations.
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Atlanta
Paul D. Williams
Richmond
Southern Regional Council
Knights of St. Peter Claver establish first New York State council
In Buffalo a new Bishop J. F. O'Hara Council of the Knights of St. Peter Claver was inaugurated at St. Mary's Church. The national Catholic Negro fraternal order aims to promote fraternal, social, and religious activities for Black Catholic men in Buffalo, with a ladies auxiliary being formed. Delegates from Detroit's Blessed Martin Assembly led the initiation and installation ceremonies.
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N. Y
New York State
Knights of St. Peter Claver
J. F. O'Hara
St. Mary’s Church
John F. O'Hara
Notre Dame ‘University
Blessed Martin Assembly
Detroit
Hospital Addition to Start at St. Catherine’s General
Work has begun on a $1,000,000 addition to St. Catherine’s General Hospital by the Franciscan Sisters. Dr. Peter Marshall Murray, a pioneer African American fellow of the American College of Surgeons, joins the hospital staff.
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New York
St. Catherine’s General Hospital
Peter Marshall Murray
American College of Surgeons
Justice, Not Charity Must Be Solution, Says Speaker
Ogdenberg N Y Justice not charity is the answer to racial and religious discrimination in the United States. Julian J Reiss a NYS Commission Against Discrimination member and Catholic layman spoke to the Bishop Monaghan General Assembly of Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus. He cited Old Testament and Christ teachings and papal encyclicals on brotherhood under God. He warned that prejudice and discrimination persist in homes and schools as sins against the Fifth Commandment.
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N. Y
United States
Julian J. Reiss
New York State Commission Against Discrimination
Monaghan General
God
Catholic Sociologists to Discuss Racial and Family Problems
Delegates to the Catholic Sociological annual convention will discuss racial religious and family issues in the United States. Sessions run December 27 28 at the Continental Hotel with speakers Dr A H Clemens Catholic University Washington Rev Raymond Murray C C Notre Dame University and Clement Mihano vitch St Louis University.
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United States
Hotel Continental
A. H. Clemens
The
Catholic University
Washington
Raymond Murray
Notre Dame Univerity
Clement H. Mihanovitch
St. Louis University
Saint Martin de Porres Film Project At Siena Heights
In Adrian Michigan students at Lienz Heights College prepare a slide film on Blessed Martin de Porres. The project mirrors the Marygrove College film on Negro and Economic Security and highlights the saint's corporeal and spiritual works of mercy. Sister Helene O P directs the effort for the Detroit Archdiocese.
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O. P
Siena Heights
Nuns and Nurse Aid At Winecoff Hotel Fire Toll
Special Medical Mission Sisters who run the Catholic Clinic for Negroes in Atlanta helped care for Winecoff Hotel fire victims. The disaster at the hotel claimed about 120 lives and wounded many. The nuns provided medical and spiritual care at Grady Hospital.
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Atlanta
Winecoff Hotel
Grady Hospital
Catholic Interracial Council Urges Truman to Seek Lynchings Law
The Catholic Interracial Council of Washington, D. C. asks President Truman to address Congress in a special message requesting legislation to outlaw lynchings and strengthen protections for minority civil rights. The resolution notes recent lynchings and inadequate enforcement.
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Washington
D. C
Truman
Congress
Catholic Interracial Council
G. Howland Shaw
Washington, D. C
Univ Women Vote For Fair Play
Washington reporting a racial bias dispute within the Washington chapter of the American Association of University Women. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, denied membership, appealed to the national board, which reversed the decision and ordered reexamination of reorganized university women groups worldwide to ensure inclusion irrespective of race.
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Washington
The
American Association of University Women
Mary Church Terrell
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